Over spring break, we took a quick trip to Chicago. It seems crazy now, just two weeks later, that we had trouble squeezing a 3 night trip into our busy calendar. Even during the kids' week off from school, we still had sports practices, council meetings, volunteer obligations, therapy, piano, and of course wrestling tournaments. Bryan has been exceptionally busy at work and only felt he could take two days off. So, we left on Saturday after Reggie's wrestling tournament. We drove about six hours and stayed just outside the city near the airport.
On Sunday morning, we checked out and went to the Museum of Science and Industry. It's the largest science center in the western hemisphere! It's huge! I think we spent about 6 hours there and still didn't see all of it.
Lydia made a card stock model of the Wright Brothers' plane last year.
U-505 German Submarine
Whispering Gallery
"Lightening"
Our next stop was Millennium Park. This is one of my favorite stops in Chicago, and Reggie agreed.
It was busy on a Sunday afternoon, but a nice day.
We checked into a hotel downtown for the night. We had a great view and could even see Lake Michigan in the distance.
We walked down to Navy Pier for dinner. The Ferris wheel was closed, which, in hindsight, was a sign of things to come.
On Monday morning, we checked out and headed over to Shedd Aquarium. The live show was our favorite part.
The touching tide pools were fun and beluga whales were huge!
Here is a live 4 foot clam.
The sharks are circling their dinner!
Reggie liked the baby alligator.
After Shedd, we headed over to Field Museum of natural history. But we were already pretty worn out and ready to chill (Brett fell asleep on a bench), so we only stayed for about an hour.
So we returned to the first night's hotel for our last night. We had planned to swim, but the pool was closed.
We went to Giordano's for some Chicago-style pizza. Yum!
It was a fun night, but now I can't help but wonder how this server is doing now?
Tuesday morning we packed up and headed home. We needed to get home to a special event, which will be in the next post!
